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Yes! Gotta take the fan off and the belt. Do you have the tool to do that? It goes down behind the fan pulley and sticks in a hole locking it while you take out the bolt with an 8mm allen head. You can make one too with right size steel shafts. Overall it's a 3-6 hour job (depending on experience). Hardest thing for me is getting the damn fan off the fan clutch even with proper tool. With the right flex sockets, you can get the pump bolts off. Make sure you do remove the IAC valve bolts so it can be loose and that will help you attack the top back pump bolt. Use electrical tape on the wobble sockets flex points to stiffen them so you can easily get them on to the bolt heads. Once you do that, you are golden. Remove the bottom radiator hose so you can access the pulleys. Also, loosen all of the pulley bolts (waterpump and power steering ones) while belt is still on and tight. Loosen the big tensioner bolt between the wp and ps pulley before you touch the top 13mm brass adjuster or you'll ruin your tensioner ($$). Pay attention to the tensioner configuration when taking it out. Has to go back in the same way. Recommendation is to replace the water pump since you are going through all of this anyway just to replace a cheap o-ring but proceed at your own risk. It's just an o-ring you can pick up at a local auto parts store that sells the water pump as well. Let me know if you run into any dis-assembly issues. I've done this tear down and rebuild 6 times now. Got it down to 2.5 hours off and back on. First time took me a while.
Last edited by sptt; 01-30-2012 at 03:16 PM.
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